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Historian Peter Jones on monastic education, cathedral schools and apprenticeship in the Middle Ages.

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'In a cathedral school you imitated not just the ideas of the master but also their bodily comportment, you wanted to become like your masters at the cathedral school. In other words, at the cathedral schools you learned not just ideas or read texts: you learn how to be the kind of person that your master was. '

Peter Jones, PhD in History, University of Tyumen

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